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Blanc-Sablon ferry terminal → Pinware

Blanc-Sablon ferry to Pinware

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Distance
51.2 km
Roads
138510
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Pinware from the hill above: houses spread along the shore of its bay, with barrens in the foreground.
Pinware from the hill above: houses spread along the shore of its bay, with barrens in the foreground.Photo: Didier Naulleau · source · CC BY-SA 3.0
Driving route from Blanc-Sablon ferry terminal to Pinware: 51.2 km by road, via Routes 138 · 510.Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors. Tiles by OpenFreeMap. Route line computed with OSRM.

Faded lines are other drives from Blanc-Sablon ferry terminal into this area: Point Amour Lighthouse (33 km), Red Bay (84 km), Forteau (18 km). Each splits off where its line leaves this one.

  1. Stop 1: Forteau

    A village on Route 510, the Labrador Straits road.

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  2. Stop 2: Point Amour LighthouseDetour

    Completed in 1857 to guide steamships down the Strait of Belle Isle, with 132 steps to the top. A Provincial Historic Site.

    Stopping here adds 10.1 km to the drive.

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Drive measured Oct 24, 2026, Blanc-Sablon ferry terminal to Pinware. Your maps app gives the time on the day. How we measure

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51.2 km. The Blanc-Sablon ferry to Pinware on Routes 138 and 510. The boat from St. Barbe, on the island, lands at the terminal.

A hamlet on Route 510 between Point Amour and Red Bay.

Sunrise and sunset at Pinware, by month
Month (the 15th)SunriseSunset
January8:16 am4:34 pm
February7:31 am5:30 pm
March7:32 am7:20 pm
April6:21 am8:12 pm
May5:24 am9:01 pm
June4:58 am9:35 pm
July5:16 am9:29 pm
August6:01 am8:41 pm
September6:50 am7:33 pm
October7:39 am6:24 pm
November7:35 am4:28 pm
December8:16 am4:07 pm

Worked out for the 15th of each month at this spot, in local time. The weather line at the top has today's.

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Paved or not, per the map

Mapped as unpaved
0.1 km
Southern Labrador Highway (0.07 km, 22.2 km from Pinware)
Mapped as paved
100%
49.6 km of 51.2 km driven
No surface tag on the map
0%
0 km: surface not recorded

In a rental car: Hertz Canada’s terms say “use off paved roads or on roads which are not regularly maintained” voids the damage waiver. Check your own agreement. Hertz’s terms ↗. Source for these figures: OSRM driving profile, stored route query, with node annotations; OpenStreetMap surface tags via Overpass, checked 2026-10-24. Today's road conditions: 511.

Before you go

These change, so we link to the people who keep them up to date.

  • The sailingThe schedule changes through the year

    The boat from St. Barbe lands at this terminal. The province publishes a different timetable by season and says ice can lengthen a crossing, so book the sailing first.

    gov.nl.ca →
  • MooseYear round, worst between dusk and dawn

    The province puts the likelihood of injury in a moose collision at twice as high between dusk and dawn as in daylight.

    gov.nl.ca →
  • Road conditionsYear round, most of all November to April

    Check 511 before you set out on Routes 138 and 510, and again before the drive back.

    511nl.ca →

Questions

How far is Pinware from the Blanc-Sablon ferry?+

51.2 km by road, on Routes 138 and 510. Your maps app gives the time on the day.

Where does the ferry come from?+

St. Barbe, on the island's Northern Peninsula. The drive to the St. Barbe ferry from each island airport and ferry has its own page.

What is at Pinware?+

A hamlet on Route 510 between Point Amour and Red Bay.

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Every distance and coordinate on this page was checked against its source on October 24, 2026. Origin: OpenStreetMap node/448394297 — Blanc Sablon. Destination: OpenStreetMap node/448885466 — Pinware.

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